Tom Hayden: Clintons in Denial

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/hayden

Clintons in Denial
By Tom Hayden

May 7, 2008


Barack got his game back. Hillary needs a reality check.

Barack had the voters at his back against all the forces trying to bring him down. He held his lead in North Carolina, and only the Rush Limbaugh Republican vote stands between Barack and victory in Indiana.

Hillary needed two wins. She failed utterly. But she will not stop, not on her own.

The superdelegates should intervene and send Hillary a message. Out now.

If they don't, the supporters of Obama should step up their persuasion on those still-undeclared superdelegates to recognize the inevitable and bring this campaign to an end.

Supporters of John Edwards should push their former candidate to release his pledged delegates now, a move that might make the difference as early as this week.

Progressives should intensify the counterattack against Clinton's smear campaign against Barack's character and bogus arguments for recognizing Michigan and Florida, sending the message that her campaign tactics risk a massive defection of the disillusioned in November.

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/hayden

Or is he something else?

Thomas Emmet Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He is the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity.

Hayden serves as a member of the advisory board for the Progressive Democrats of America, an influential "grass roots" organization created to expand "progressive" political cooperation within the Democratic Party.

In January 2008, Hayden wrote an oped piece for The Huffington Post supporting Barack Obama's presidential bid in the Democratic primaries.

IIRC, he supported Nader in 2000.

When the democrats won back the house. They would have had a more solid majority and better candidate to work with if Lieberman hadn't gotten any support from democrats but had put their strength behind Ned LaMont.

I don't know who Hayden supported - and don't care - maybe he's an independent -- or a "progressive" as you put it. Is "progressive" some sort of code for the people in this country who are to the left of Clinton? maybe?

since they didn't support Lieberman, who will now be speaking at the Republican Nat'l Convention... maybe?